[ORIENT]. [ANONYMOUS]. The two Circassians or Letters from Resky to Amida. Turkish anecdote. In French, manuscript on paper. France, 18th century (after or before 1771?). [2] - 54 pp. followed by 5 ff. of endpapers, beautiful calligraphic writing, text inscribed in a double frame drawn in ink. Bound in full tan calf, spine with 5 nerves partitioned and decorated with flowers, gilt title, triple gilt fillet on the boards with four fleurons at the corners, single gilt fillet on the edges, red edges. Dimensions : 130 x 165 mmThese letters are a correspondence between two circassian women, both in the seraglio of a sultan . They were printed in the following collection : Poetic works. Histoire de Daphné..., Paris, chez la Veuve Duchêne, 1771. The work and its contents are described in the Journal encyclopédique dedicated to his Serene Highness, Mgr. the Duke of Bouillon. Year 1771, volume III, part I, A Bouillon, De l'imprimerie du Journal, p. 305. The handwritten work is preceded by a "Dedicatory epistle to Madame P***" and signed "By the most respectful of your servants. Dusaussois, ancient adviser of the King and of the Republic of Poland. This 8th of May 1781 ".